Choose Your Own Adventure Spies Series

Sing to the tune of freedom in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 16 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

You are Josephine Baker, a famous American entertainer living in Paris. It’s the second World War, and in an occupied France, you perform every night for adoring crowds. One day, an officer for the Allies approaches you, asking you to make the most critical decision of your life–are you willing to become a spy for the resistance and help defeat the Nazis? Will you be able to use your many talents to protect your friends and your beloved France, or will your daring adventures result in a bitter end?

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Curriculum friendly! Downloadable teachers’ guide.Additional classroom materials available upon request.Learn about Josephine Baker, the jazz icon and real life spy whose tales of adventure and daring live on in the popular imagination.Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.

Save the world’s greatest library in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

It is circa 400 A.D. and YOU are a young person living in ancient Greece. You are studying with the powerful philosopher and mathematician, Hypatia. Hypatia’s formulas and inventions will change the course of history, but she can’t let go of an event from the past. She needs you to travel back in time to the age of Cleopatra in order to change history so the Library of Alexandria can be saved from destruction by fire. Can you do what’s needed to preserve the world’s most important knowledge? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

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Classroom materials available upon request.Learn about ancient Egypt in this historical fiction story.Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.

Fight against Confederate forces in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

YOU are a brave and fearless woman. You can ride standing on the back of a horse while shooting a bow and arrow. You never go anywhere without your sword. But your best skill of all is your ability to disguise yourself. Will YOU infiltrate the Confederate White House, posing as a servant, and gather information for the Union? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

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Classroom materials available upon request.Learn about Mary Bowser, a Union spy who was born an enslaved woman and ended up spying in the Confederate White House during the Civil War.Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.

Leave a life of luxury to help defeat the Nazis in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

YOU are the world’s first Princess Spy and Britain’s first Muslim war heroine, Noor Inayat Khan. You grew up in a life of luxury, but when World War II begins, your dreams of traveling the world and helping people are quickly changed. You leave your easy life of royalty behind to spy for the Resistance as a British secret agent. Did the lessons of your royal life prepare you for the realities of war? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

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Classroom materials available upon request.Learn about Noor Inayat Khan, a British Resistance agent tasked with espionage in Axis-occupied countries who, despite giving her life to the resistance, is largely left out of the history books.Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.

Perform sleights of hand to secure secrets in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

YOU are America’s first famous magician, Harry Houdini, also known as “The King of Cuffs.” You are known to challenge local police to defy your skills by locking you up. Reporters follow this story, and so do jealous rivals. But one follower of your magic act has a serious request: With all of your sleight of hand and intelligence, will you become a spy and collect information abroad to help the United States? Will you gain international fame? Or will you stay in the United States to perfect your tricks? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

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Classroom materials available upon request.Learn about Harry Houdini, renowned escape artist and friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, who some historians theorize was a spy!Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.

Dance in the face of danger in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 23 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

The year is 1915, and YOU are young Margaretha Zelle, a world-famous dancer from the Netherlands who was best known by her stage name, “Mata Hari.” You have just arrived in Bali, Indonesia, with your dance troupe when your best friend Althea goes missing. As a master of tongues and disguises, who better to save her? Your trek through the mysterious Balinese jungle might lead you to a top secret spy school, but if you leave now, you will miss your chance to audition for the performance of a lifetime. Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

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Curriculum friendly! Downloadable teachers’ guide.Additional classroom materials available upon request.Learn about Mata Hari, who was more than a dancer and spy—she was an intelligent and courageous feminist, a resourceful survivor, and an adventurous spirit who lived dangerously.Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.

Spy for the revolution in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 19 possible endings!

Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.

The year is 1781 and George Washington is commanding thousands of troops in Yorktown, Virginia, on the brink of the most important battle of the war. YOU are James Armistead, a brave and literate enslaved person in Virginia. Marquis de Lafayette, one of Washington’s key officers, approaches you with the most critical choice of your life: Do you join the Revolutionary army as a top secret spy or find freedom on your own terms? As a spy for the revolution, you might change the course of history, but whose liberty will you really be fighting for? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.

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Curriculum friendly! Downloadable teachers’ guide.Additional classroom materials available upon request.Learn about James Armistead Lafayette, whose efforts were instrumental in helping the revolutionary forces defeat the British, and yet whose story has been almost entirely left out of history books.Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.